Environmental Thriller “Vapor Trails” To Launch In May 2011
Authors R.P. Siegel and Roger Saillant’s New Novel Uncovers The Inside World Of The Global Energy Crisis
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (Jan. 18, 2011) – Energy industry veterans and environmental thought leaders R.P. Siegel and Roger Saillant’s new thriller Vapor Trails explores the ruthless underbelly of a multi-national oil company that is determined to conceal its dangerous Asian operations no matter the financial or human cost. Released by The Way Things Are Publications and scheduled for publication May 2011, Vapor Trails fuses the perspectives of the environmental movement with the energy industry, delivering a well-rounded approach to the energy crisis and the role of both environmentalists and corporations in reaching comprehensive solutions.
Vapor Trails throws several characters together from across the spectrum of the environmental movement and energy industry onto a global stage. When an oil executive has gone missing, the company intimidates those within its ranks to keep an unraveling conspiracy secret, forcing some within the company to break from its global clutches in order to save the destruction of a community and environment in the Far East and rescue their friend and colleage before time runs out.
The insights and information that serve as the basis for Vapor Trails come from the authors’ many years of experience within the energy industry and as environmental advocates. The story introduces and delves into major current issues concerning climate change and the energy crisis, using sound scientific research.
“With Vapor Trails, Siegel and Saillant truly are bringing a holistic perspective of the many environmental crises we are facing as a society,” said Director of Publishing Jennifer Havenner. “The book’s fast-pace, suspense, and depth of character deliver a stunning package for the thriller lover as well as a superb exploration of environmental issues for energy industry professionals and environmental advocates alike.”
Vapor Trails will be available in hardcover in the May of 2011 at all major bookstores and online.
About The Authors
Vapor Trails co-authors R.P. Siegel and Roger Saillant, have worked extensively on both sides of the environmental movement’s spectrum, as insiders in the energy industry and also as established environmental advocacy leaders. Siegel and Saillant’s personal and professional experience in academia and sustainability non-profits, as well as their tenure as executives in the private sector, has helped them to develop a unique systems-oriented perspective on environmentalism that calls for both environmentalists and industry people to work together on comprehensive issues.
About The Way Things Are Publications
The Way Things Are Publications is a publisher of fiction and nonfiction that share philosophical sensibilities and strive to elevate awareness of social issues. The company chooses publications based upon the social relevance of the material and the author’s intention to address the philosophical nuances of our society and civilization. For more information visit http://www.waythingsarepublications.com and on Twitter @waythingsare.
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New Climate Change Thriller “Melting Down” To Launch In Spring 2011
Environmental Thriller “Melting Down” By Harvey Stone Will Follow A Nuclear Terrorism Plot To Destroy The World’s Glaciers
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (Oct. 15, 2010) – Harvey Stone, environmental consultant for corporations, municipalities, and government agencies, penned an environmental thriller about a terrorist plot to exploit the global consequences of climate change and seize control of the world’s energy sector. Published by independent press The Way Things Are Publications, Melting Down’s use of political intrigue, suspense, and action that span the globe dramatically demonstrates both the science and the impact of climate change.
Set in the not-too-distant future, Melting Down follows a host of characters on a global journey to uncover a conspiracy involving high-ranking aging Cold War Russians that intend to expedite the energy crises in order to seize control of the world’s economy through its lucrative Arctic oil reserves. Armed with more than a hundred suitcase nuclear devices, they execute an international terrorist plot that holds the world’s glaciers hostage until their high-stakes demands are met.
Stone’s narrative contains an undertone of systems-oriented solutions that were born from his lengthy history in triple bottom line systems development designed for resolving organizational social, economic, and environmental problems within a single framework. The solutions presented in Melting Down are in response to the reader’s firsthand witness of the eminent and destructive impact of global climate change.
“Harvey Stone’s background has generated a genuinely unique perspective on climate change and the solutions available to prevent widespread environmental and socioeconomic disaster,” said Jennifer Havenner, director of publishing for The Way Things Are Publications. “Melting Down does what political thrillers do best: engage readers with political intrigue and action, but it also delivers a stark and humbling preview of climate change’s impact while at the same time explores plausible and real-world solutions that can help navigate our uncertain future.”
The book will be available in hardcover in the spring of 2011 at all major bookstores and online.
About Harvey Stone
Harvey Stone is a former psychologist turned corporate speechwriter turned environmental consultant who for the past ten years has specialized in systems-based, triple bottom solutions, working with corporations, municipalities and government agencies seeking to reduce cost and increase effectiveness by solving social, economic, and environmental problems within a single framework. Harvey is a father and grandfather. In a world as inter-connected and fragile as ours, he takes seriously the “melting down” threats posted by international terrorism, climate change and ultra-narrow, human self-interest. For more on Harvey Stone’s triple bottom line solutions, visit his site at http://www.tbltimes.com.
About The Way Things Are Publications
The Way Things Are Publications is a publisher of fiction and nonfiction that share philosophical sensibilities and strive to elevate awareness of social issues. The company chooses publications based upon the social relevance of the material and the author’s intention to address the philosophical nuances of our society and civilization. For more information visit http://www.waythingsarepublications.com and on Twitter @waythingsare.
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Environmental Columnist Edward Flattau’s Fourth Book “Green Morality” Launched
The Nation’s Longest Running Nationally Syndicated Environmental Columnist’s Treatise On Society’s Moral Obligation To Environmentalism Now Available Online And In Bookstores
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (Oct. 8, 2010) – Edward Flattau, the nation’s longest running syndicated environmental newspaper columnist released his fourth book, “Green Morality” yesterday at Brown University’s Center for Environmental Studies, Providence RI. An alumnus of Brown, Flattau was invited to speak about the topics discussed in his latest book including the motivation and rationalization of continued deliberate environmental abuse by individuals, governments, and corporations.
The book, an illustrated hardcover non-fiction, is the culmination of research from Flattau’s forty-year career that explores the immoral underbelly of the earth’s ongoing and escalating environmental crisis. Published by social issues press, The Way Things Are Publications, “Green Morality” analyzes manmade global environmental atrocities supporting a theme that environmentalism must become a moral imperative to avert long-term environmental destruction.
“Mr. Flattau’s distinguished 40-year career has chronicled the highs and lows of the environmental movement,” said Jennifer Havenner, Director of Publishing for The Way Things Are Publications. “It is a privilege to publish this timely book that calls upon each and every one of us to face up to the environmental crises for no other reasons than it is the right thing to do—and we’ll pay dearly if we don’t.”
“Green Morality” is available online and in all major bookstores.
About Edward Flattau
Edward Flattau is the nation’s longest running syndicated environmental newspaper columnist with 40 years in the industry, columns that have appeared in more than 120 daily newspapers, assignments from his Washington D.C. base, around the country, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, and the recipient of ten national journalism awards. In addition to newspaper syndication through Global Horizons, Edward Flattau blogs on The Huffington Post and posts news and updates on Twitter and on Facebook.
About The Way Things Are Publications
The Way Things Are Publications is a publisher of fiction and nonfiction that share philosophical sensibilities and strive to elevate awareness of social issues. The company chooses publications based upon the social relevance of the material and the author’s intention to address the philosophical nuances of our society and civilization. For more information visit http://www.waythingsarepublications.com and on Twitter @waythingsare.
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Traumatic Brain Injury Uses Route 66 To Tell The Story Of His Recovery In New Autobiography “End of the Trail”
Route 66 Enthusiast Dan Rice Publishes a Book on His Eight-Year Recovery from TBI
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (Aug. 15, 2010) – In a new autobiography published by independent press The Way Things Are Publications, author Dan Rice, 66-to-Cali Inc. owner, Route 66 enthusiast, and a permanent fixture on the iconic Santa Monica Pier, reveals his journey to recovery from Traumatic Brain Injury in attempt to raise public awareness of the condition and how it can be treated. The book, End of the Trail, explores a psychological struggle with deteriorating mental faculties, depression, anger, suicidal ideations, and an increasing inability to understand the world around him due to a trauma that often is misunderstood by both the medical field and the general public.
Rice’s eight-year recovery from TBI began with a near fatal car accident in 2002 that halted a Hollywood career and high-paced track toward a Ph.D. in Psychology. The undiagnosed injury threw Rice into a downward spiral in which his perceptions of reality were completely transformed, unintelligible, and in some cases altogether removed. The story of his recovery is intertwined with the story of his passion for Route 66, illustrating that the economic trauma of the historic route, representing a larger economic trauma of middle America, mirrored his own physical trauma.
“Dan Rice’s story is compelling on many dramatic levels,” said Jennifer Havenner, director of publishing for The Way Things Are Publications. “The twists and ebbs of his recovery from TBI told with the lens of Route 66 tell a simultaneous story of the struggle for survival while broadcasting an important and relevant message. More than 1.5 million Americans suffer from TBI and it kills over 50,000 annually. It is considered the signature injury of the Iraq War; though millions have been diagnosed, there remain millions more with no idea they have an injury and that it is treatable. Dan’s book shows this can happen to anyone – and more importantly reveals the path to recovery.”
The book will be available in illustrated hardcover in the winter of 2010 at all major bookstores and online.
About Dan Rice
Dan Rice is the president of Santa Monica Pier retailer 66-to-Cali Inc., recipient of the prestigious Will Rogers 2010 New Business of the Year Award, and a recovered Traumatic Brain Injury victim. Rice seeks to educate the public about brain injury by speaking candidly about his own dramatic road to recovery. He also hopes to inspire other victims and their families as they struggle to claim back their lives and loved ones from the mental darkness. He works closely with the larger Route 66 community to revitalize the Mother Road and educate new generations of the iconic importance of the route. Visit 66-to-Cali’s website, Facebook page, and Twitter feed.
About The Way Things Are Publications
The Way Things Are Publications is a publisher of fiction, nonfiction, and periodicals that share philosophical sensibilities and strive to elevate social consciousness. The company chooses publications based upon the social relevance of the material and the author’s intention to address the philosophical nuances of our society and civilization. For more information visit http://www.waythingsarepublications.com and on Twitter @waythingsare.
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Newspaper Columnist Edward Flattau’s Environmental Treatise “Green Morality” To Be Released September 2010
Washington D.C. Environmental Columnist Edward Flattau’s Fourth Book An Urgent Call To Make Environmentalism a Moral and Economic Priority
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. (May 5, 2010) – Edward Flattau, the nation’s longest running syndicated environmental newspaper columnist, will release his fourth book, “Green Morality”, this September. The book, an illustrated hardcover non-fiction, is the culmination of research from Flattau’s forty-year career that explores the immoral underbelly of the earth’s ongoing and escalating environmental crisis.
Published by Los Angeles independent social issues press, The Way Things Are Publications, “Green Morality” analyzes manmade global environmental atrocities supporting a theme that environmentalism must become a universal moral imperative to avert long-term environmental destruction. Flattau discusses topics ranging from corporate and industrial environmental immorality to failed public policies, and corrupt or immobilized political leaders. The book advocates a re-alignment of modern society’s value system and economic infrastructure in order to avert environmental destruction and create an environmentally and economically sustainable society.
“Mr. Flattau’s distinguished 40-year career has chronicled the highs and lows of the environmental movement,” said Jennifer Havenner, Director of Publishing for The Way Things Are Publications. “It is a privilege to publish this timely book that calls upon each and every one of us to face up to the environmental crises for no other reasons than it is the right thing to do—and we’ll pay dearly if we don’t. The atrocities brought to light in Flattau’s discourse are punctuated by a fearless analysis of mankind’s moral duty to stop the reckless endangerment of our environment. It is an importantly eminent message that I believe the world needs to hear.”
“Green Morality” includes a preface by renowned environmentalist William A. Butler of Georgetown University and we be available in all major bookstores and online September, 2010.
About Edward Flattau
Edward Flattau is the nation’s longest running syndicated environmental newspaper columnist with 40 years in the industry, columns in more than 120 daily newspapers, assignments from his Washington D.C. base, around the country, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, and the recipient of ten national journalism awards. In addition to newspaper syndication through Global Horizons, Edward Flattau blogs on The Huffington Post and posts news and updates on Twitter and on Facebook.
About The Way Things Are Publications
The Way Things Are Publications is a publisher of fiction, non-fiction, and periodicals that share philosophical sensibilities and strive to elevate social consciousness. The company chooses publications based upon the social relevance of the material and the author’s intention to address the philosophical nuances of our society and civilization.
For more information visit http://www.waythingsarepublications.com and on Twitter @waythingsare.
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